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Vime art

Is a new created word which connects the media „video“ and „mime“ in one art stream. It can describe the resulting work of art as well as the working process towards it.

Video- as opposite to film, is used by Vime artists in order to strengthen the low budget- character of producing vime art for the sake of a playful, spontaneous, fake bullet shooting.

Mime- describes the interest in the physicality of a character as well as in the timing and space composition, and attempts to play with these elements in a theatrical way.

Vime art is observing daily life and directs it into an absurd, theatrical, surrealistic turning point in order to strengthen the absurdity which anyway lies beyond the realistic situation. It is in love with the genre documentary and always searches for its manipulation on the border of reality and fiction. It aims to turn any truth upside down and disorientate the viewer. A special focus in Vime art lies on the composition of the video frame- there might be a main action in front while the camera watches the little moments in the back which pretend to be unconscious. Clearly spoken: there might come an elephant passing by in the background, walking on the borders of the frame.

Vime art observes the behaviour of its characters, and frames it in a way that the humour, absurdity, beauty and cruelty of everyday life can be found. It is looking for twists(contre-poids) in its characters and situations, as well as in the composition of the images itself. The character might be put into a situation/ landscape with which it can struggle, even if the struggling occurs senseless. It will show the trying of the character to achieve something he/she assumes as ‚good’, and every failure will be celebrated honestly.

The actor and the situation might be innocent in the beginning, as well as the Vime artist pretends to be but they will get into a comp lice-relation with each other. There will be at least one twinkle in one’s eye.

Vime-art can be shown in the frame of an installation to express its theatrical approach. The viewer should leave the Vime art piece and turn into an unexpected street on his way home or sense the meaning of the word ‘blue’ while walking back.